I wonder if he did the voices. I want to hear his Dobbie and his Hagrid.
How can he be a Muslim if he doesn’t like coffee?!
/kidding
Valete,
Vox Imperatoris
I saw something somewhere that said that each daughter has a special, individual activity that they do with their dad. His activity with Malia was reading through all 7 Harry Potter books with her.
I think a recording of Barack Obama reading the Harry Potter books aloud in his distinctive voice and cadence would be weirdly hilarious to listen to.
His blackness cancels the coffee loving out.
Whatever happened to that poster?
During the early campaign (around the time of the “works out 3 times a day” scandal), there was some nonsense fluff-news piece about whether Obama was “too thin” to be president, on the grounds that by being in much better physical shape than the average American, he therefore isn’t really representative of “real America”. Anyway, the article gave his weight at around 180, ten pounds below the average for his height.
If he read the Harry Potter books, doesn’t that put him in league with the devil and witchcraft and sorcery, according to some fringe elements of the more informed of the religious fundamentalists?
Got to keep those Antichrist bona fides up, you know.
Excellent. AND he collects comics. What a guy.
The geeks have taken over, dudes. There’s no escaping it, and a guy like Obama is tailor-made for geeks. According to other sources on the 'net (and posted elsewhere on this board), he’s familiar with “All Your Base Are Belong to Us” to quote it in conversation. Obama is the first geek president - suck it, Fillmore - and as a geek, I’m proud.
“Since” Clinton? Bill Clinton was a gifted hillbilly. He was about as hip as Lawrence Welk.
I note the list claims he speaks Spanish. W. Bush does as well, making two Presidents in a row who spoke a language other than English. Who would have been the previous President to speak another language?
Jefferson spoke fluent French (and Latin and classical Greek too, IIRC).
“Can we beat Voldemort? YES WE CAN!”
From Newsweek:
The guy is a total nerd.
Obama’s a bacon man! (One minute into the clip you can hear Michelle say she gets most of her protein from bacon!)
I don’t know about that. This was a pretty hip moment.
This list credits him with only one Grammy. He has two. Both were for best spoken word recordings. One was in 2005 for his book Dreams from My Father and the other was in 2008 for his recording of his book, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.
But hey, what’s two Grammies? I am a Grammy for cryin’ out loud.
One of his favorite shows is MAS*H?
YES!!!
James A. Garfield could reputedly write Latin with one hand while writing in Greek with the other hand. Since he was also a classical languages instructor earlier in his career I assume he could speak both.
For the most part I’m thrilled with his geekiness (though…Conan? Hmmm). I also have a weird hope that he’s doing his best to pass on the geek to his kids, though that could just be my simmering resentment over my own father doing just that to me.
I so want this to be true, and if it is, I might have a new Dead President Crush.
Er, or I would, if having crushes on dead presidents wasn’t disturbing and abnormal. But since it is of course I don’t. Nope, not me.
Possibly untrue facts:
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[li]He has 33 teeth.[/li][li]His CB radio handle is “Hamtoucher”.[/li][li]He can divide by zero.[/li][li]He has never believed in Santa Claus but did believe in the Easter Bunny until the age of 27.[/li][li]He has seen the film *Repo Man *147 times.[/li][li]His cousin Kwame runs a dairy in Kenya which produces the nation’s leading brand of blue cheese.[/li][li]He can turn the world on with a smile.[/li][li]He can take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile.[/li][li]Despite his years as a Constitutional scholar he is still unable to recite the Preamble without humming that tune to himself.[/li][li]He knows all the lyrics to the “Gimme the Ball” number from *A Chorus Line *but will not perform it in public because he looks silly in leg warmers.[/li][li]He originally wanted to be a used tractor salesman when he grew up.[/li][li]He once ate an entire pig on a dare.[/li][li]His favorite Simpsons character is Ned Flanders.[/li][li]He is violently allergic to koalas.[/li][li]Sometimes he feels “less than fresh”.[/li][li]He actually cast his ballot for John McCain out of sympathy.[/li][li]He likes pudding.[/li][li]You know that headbanging thing everyone does to Bohemian Rhapsody? He doesn’t do that.[/li][li]He was once caught on an open mike referring to President Bush as a “total spedhead”.[/li][li]His subscription to Reader’s Digest expired in 1983.[/li][li]He likes pina coladas and getting caught in the rain.[/li][/ul]